Scheidt (Wiehl)

Scheidt City of Wiehl Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	566  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51674
Area code :	02262
Location of Scheidt in Wiehl
Scheidt land map from 1808

Scheidt ( hommersch Schee, Scheed) is a district of Drabenderhöhe , part of the town of Wiehl . It was spun off in 1932 with Pfaffenscheid from the municipality of Much , Rhein-Siegkreis, and added to the then municipality of Drabenderhöhe. In 1957 the place name Scheidt was officially given up because the hamlet had already merged with the village of Drabenderhöhe. However, the name is still used in the language of the locals.

Location and description

The hamlet of Scheidt is located at the intersection of the historic Brüderstraße and Zeithstraße , right on the former border between the Duchy of Berg and the Lordship of Homburg. The neighboring village of Drabenderhöhe already belonged to the Homburg rulership, Scheidt itself to the Berg duchy, Windeck district, Much municipality.

Scheidt is located at about 300  m above sea level. NHN in a watershed area where half a dozen spring streams originate. The Pfaffenscheider and the Herrsiefen, which unite to form the Wahnbach, stretch to the west. The Loopebach and Umschersiefen rises in the north. Surrounding heights are the Löher head with 353  m above sea level. NHN , Steimel 351  m above sea level NHN , Schimmelhau 364  m above sea level NHN , Immerkopf 365  m above sea level. NHN , Hipperich 352  m above sea level NHN and the Heckberg 385  m above sea level. NHN as the highest elevation.

history

The place was founded as a single farm in the settlement expansion period between around 900 and 1100 AD. The oldest houses have hall or courtyard names, such as Im Anfang, Auf der Bitze, Spitzenburg, Schniffel, Im Salzrümpchen, Kretsch, Pfaffenscheid, Mitten im Hof, Abben im Hof, Unter der Hof, Dumpe or Pfaffenscheid.

Drawing with Schniffel and Church

Scheidt was first mentioned in 1559 as "Das Scheidt" in the lists of horse and barge services in the Windeck office. A Wylhem and a Petter in Kretsch are mentioned as taxpayers. Wylhem can be historically proven again in a file of the Reich Chamber Court from 1574 (file RKG S 1387, III, Main State Archive Düsseldorf) as a 50-year-old witness in disputes over ore mining in Kaltenbach. A coin find from 1882 indicates that the place existed earlier. At that time around 200 coins from the years 1448 to 1640 were found (source: year books of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland). The place belonged together with Obermiebach , Niedermiebach , Wellerscheid , Oberdorf and Oberbusch to the Bergische Honschaft Miebach. In the middle of the 16th century the Lutheran faith prevailed in the parish of Drabenderhöhe.

In 1582 the vicar Sasse reported from Pfaffenscheid that after the incorporation by the Order of St. John, parts of the property had been sold and only 24 acres of oat land and 2 acres of garden land belonged to it. It would therefore hardly be possible to produce enough hay for 6 cows.

By the Siegburg settlement, the Scheidt farm was separated from the now reformed Drabenderhöhe community in 1604 . The place belonged to the Duchy of Berg, but the population remained ecclesiastically connected to Obermiebach (Office Windeck, Much ), Büddelhagen , Verr and Brächen or start (Office Steinbach, Engelskirchen - northern area of Brüderstraße ), which are also separated from the mother community.

At the first census of the population by Pastor Johannes Haas in 1675, the local families were called Jost, Velder, Hillerscheid, Höhler, Schmidt and Lutter. The parsonage of the parish was in Pfaffenscheid. In later times the Bergerhof, Dreibholz, Hüschemenger, Hühn, Nohl and Bellingrath families were added.

In 1687 there was a denominational conflict. The Windeck administration forbade baptisms, births and funerals from being carried out by a Reformed Homburg pastor. This was preceded by a similar instruction from the Homburg administration for the Catholic population in the Homburg rule, which was not repealed until 1700 at the latest. Pastor Schöler built his own rectory in Drabenderhöhe in 1790, which was later acquired by the parish. The parish in Pfaffenscheid was leased and sold in 1867 by the Drabenderhöhe parish.

In autumn 1796 an Austrian corps took winter quarters in the area and devastated private and parish forests. Meanwhile, the French moved up. Together with the Austrians, farmers tried to withstand the French with agricultural implements from Homburg and the municipal area of ​​Much. Under the French commander, Marshal Michel Ney , the village and the neighboring villages were occupied by a 300-strong corps. After the French occupation in 1806, the old territorial structures were dissolved. New administrative structures the Mairien (mayor's offices) emerged, whereby the old borders remained. Scheidt belonged to the mayor's office in Much. The Rhineland was defeated into Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The administrative structures of the French remained and did not lead to any change in the municipal boundaries.

After the First World War , Scheidt was occupied by the English. Drabenderhöhe belonged to the unoccupied part of the "Cologne bridgehead". Therefore, there was a pass between Scheidt and Drabenderhöhe. The French followed the English in 1923 and occupied Drabenderhöhe until September 17, 1924. The residents of Scheidt and Obermiebach, who were supported by the towns of Verr and Büddelhagen, applied to the Cologne district government in 1924 for incorporation into the evangelical Drabenderhöhe. The community of Much was not willing to meet the wishes of the population, as they feared the loss of community taxes. Since 1925, Drabenderhöhe has developed into a high altitude health resort for summer visitors from the cities. The inns Müllenbach and Klein were known on the Scheidter side of the village, as well as the inn Kalscheuer in the beginning. A 22 m high observation tower is being built on the Löher Kopf, as well as an outdoor swimming pool near Verr, which was in operation until 1953.

Scheidt and Pfaffenscheid (37 hectares) as well as the district beginning (10 hectares) were incorporated into Drabenderhöhe in 1932. The old boundaries were not adhered to. Part of the fields Scheidt and Pfaffenscheid remained with Much, so that the farmers continued to have their fields and meadows on Much territory and had to pay their taxes in two communities.

During the Second World War in 1944 there were low-level aircraft attacks on the place. Construction work began on launching bases for so-called V weapons on the Löher Kopf. However, these were no longer completed. The resistance of the Germans ceased on April 12, 1945 and the village, like Drabenderhöhe, was occupied by the Americans. Through the division into zones of occupation, the Rhineland came under British military administration.

With the incorporation of the places Büddelhagen and Verr in 1975, the community boundary that was sharply drawn around the place was expanded. In addition, another 2550 hectares came mostly from the Engelskirchen community, but also smaller parcels from the Much community.

population

• 1559: 2 households
• 1675: 36 (8 households) + beginning 7 (1 household)
• 1828: 201 + Pfaffenscheid 10
• 1842: 199
• 1845: 176 + Pfaffenscheid 9
• 1861: 195 + early 16
• 1868: 180 + early 12th c
• 1871: 237 + early 17th century
• 1885: 230 + early 19th
• 1895: 217 + beginning of 21
• 1905: 214 + early 21
• 1925: 207 + early 21st
• 1983: 350
• 2007: 566

Today the district Scheidt has 566 inhabitants. It is difficult to distinguish it from Drabenderhöhe, as both places merge seamlessly. The following streets are included in the population: Alte Kölner Straße, Am Anfang, Am Hardtskopf, Brunnenweg, Herrenhofer Straße, Im Blumenwinkel, Scheidter Straße, Pfaffenscheider Weg, Zeitstraße, Zur Kahlhambuche and Zum Loopetal. Without exception, the population was reformed as it belonged to the parish and spoke a Rhenish ( Ripuarian ) dialect, the Homburger Platt ( Hommersch ). The Homburger Platt, however, differs considerably from the surrounding dialects and is a relict dialect. The main feature is the lack of the Rhenish J for written German G. Here a so-called A-Ch sound is used, as for Cologne “Mr jonn”, here “Mr chon”. However, the dialect is slowly dying out and is only used by older locals (around 10 to 20% of the population still have knowledge of dialect). The locals were mostly farmers. But due to the barren land, they were forced to have another profession until the 1920s. Many worked in the surrounding mines.

A few old customs are still maintained to this day, such as the “Pengstblosen” on Whitsun. The youngsters “toot” (blow) on so-called “Pe'isshorns” (Pentecost horns), which are twisted from peeled alder bark, the neighbors wake up and receive money, chocolate or sweets in return. Likewise, for the annual harvest festival in Drabenderhöhe since 1931, a harvest wagon has been designed by the neighborhood for the move through the village.

particularities

The highest point of the place is on the Kahlhambuche at 330.5 m . The half-timbered ensemble  in the area of ​​the "Schniffel" is worth seeing. The house of the Kauert family on Alte Kölner Strasse (the best-known member is Peter Kauert, who founded the “The 15 Lion Pile” mine in Kaltenbach in the 17th century) essentially dates from the 17th century and is a listed building.

Another example of a listed building is in Pfaffenscheid, Pfaffenscheider Weg. The core of this building dates from the 16th century, but has been rebuilt several times and was the parish's parsonage until the 18th century.

The “Grüne Scheune” museum, Alte Kölner Straße, is new - a former barn that housed a grain distillery in the 1920s. The house that went with it was demolished a few years ago.

On the hiking trail along the Löherkopf towards Heckberg, a plaque and a road sign in the forest reminds of the importance of the old trade route on Brüderstraße.

Personalities

• Peter Kauert, mine operator (* around 1675 - † March 1750) (Oberbergian early pioneer in the mining industry)
• Christian Schmitt, Homburg chancellery and mountain bailiff (* April 1679, † ??) (builder of the castle house in Bielstein (Wiehl) )
• Heinrich Höhler, Superintendent Kirchenkreis Wuppertal (born November 1, 1907 in Scheidt; † March 6, 1995)

literature

• Home through the ages. 10 years of the Transylvanian Saxony settlement Drabenderhöhe. Böhlau (on commission), Cologne et al. 1976, ISBN 3-412-03276-X .
• Karl Oberdörfer: The old parish Much. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1923
• Eugen Schubach: The community of Bielstein-Rhineland. Formerly Drabenderhöhe. A contribution to local history. sn, Bielstein-Rhineland 1967.
• Miebach community map. Land registry office Siegburg, 1808
• 100 years MGV Drabenderhöhe. Male choir, Drabenderhöhe 1987.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845 ( digitized ).